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Wieneke leads MVFC academic team
11/29/2017 12:27:00 PM | Football
ST. LOUIS — A league-best nine South Dakota State University football players, including five first-team selections, were named Wednesday to the 2017 Missouri Valley Football Conference All-Academic Team.
Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale). Student-athletes must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at their institutions (freshmen are not eligible). League sports information directors voted on the team by designating 11 players for first-team honors and 11 players for second-team honors. A total of 37 student-athletes, including honorable mention selections, were honored league-wide.
Leading the Jackrabbit contingent was three-time first-team honoree Jake Wieneke. A senior wide receiver from Maple Grove, Minnesota, Wieneke has compiled a 3.62 grade-point average while majoring in physical education/teacher education. A four-time first-team all-MVFC performer and the league's career record holder for receiving yards (4,862) and receiving touchdowns (56), Wieneke is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy as college football's top scholar-athlete.
Receiving first-team recognition for the second year in a row was junior quarterback Taryn Christion, who has posted a 3.62 GPA as a business economics major. On the field, the Sioux Falls native has been an all-MVFC honoree each of the past two seasons, earning first-team recognition in 2016 and second-team accolades this season.
Senior running back Brady Mengarelli moved to the first team after earning second-team recognition in 2016. A native of Prescott, Arizona, Mengarelli has turned in a 3.60 GPA as an exercise science major and has been the team's leading rusher each of the last three seasons.
Rounding out SDSU's first-team selections were junior linebacker Dalton Cox and sophomore offensive lineman Wes Genant. Cox has posted a perfect 4.0 GPA while majoring in economics and entrepreneurial studies, while Genant has compiled a 3.97 GPA as a biochemistry major.
Second-team honors were awarded to offensive lineman Caleb Lang and fullback Kane Louscher. Lang, a Freeman native, was honored with a 4.0 GPA while majoring in agricultural and biosystems engineering. Louscher repeated on the second team with a 3.82 GPA in human biology.
Earning honorable mention recognition were senior safety Nick Farina (3.62 GPA in exercise science) and sophomore linebacker Christian Rozeboom (3.30 GPA in animal science).
Earlier this fall, five Jackrabbits — Cox, Farina, Genant, Mengarelli and Wieneke – were selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 6 Team and are under consideration for Academic All-America honors.
Nominees must be starters or important reserves with at least a 3.20 cumulative grade point average (4.0 scale). Student-athletes must have reached sophomore academic and athletic standing at their institutions (freshmen are not eligible). League sports information directors voted on the team by designating 11 players for first-team honors and 11 players for second-team honors. A total of 37 student-athletes, including honorable mention selections, were honored league-wide.
Leading the Jackrabbit contingent was three-time first-team honoree Jake Wieneke. A senior wide receiver from Maple Grove, Minnesota, Wieneke has compiled a 3.62 grade-point average while majoring in physical education/teacher education. A four-time first-team all-MVFC performer and the league's career record holder for receiving yards (4,862) and receiving touchdowns (56), Wieneke is a finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy as college football's top scholar-athlete.
Receiving first-team recognition for the second year in a row was junior quarterback Taryn Christion, who has posted a 3.62 GPA as a business economics major. On the field, the Sioux Falls native has been an all-MVFC honoree each of the past two seasons, earning first-team recognition in 2016 and second-team accolades this season.
Senior running back Brady Mengarelli moved to the first team after earning second-team recognition in 2016. A native of Prescott, Arizona, Mengarelli has turned in a 3.60 GPA as an exercise science major and has been the team's leading rusher each of the last three seasons.
Rounding out SDSU's first-team selections were junior linebacker Dalton Cox and sophomore offensive lineman Wes Genant. Cox has posted a perfect 4.0 GPA while majoring in economics and entrepreneurial studies, while Genant has compiled a 3.97 GPA as a biochemistry major.
Second-team honors were awarded to offensive lineman Caleb Lang and fullback Kane Louscher. Lang, a Freeman native, was honored with a 4.0 GPA while majoring in agricultural and biosystems engineering. Louscher repeated on the second team with a 3.82 GPA in human biology.
Earning honorable mention recognition were senior safety Nick Farina (3.62 GPA in exercise science) and sophomore linebacker Christian Rozeboom (3.30 GPA in animal science).
Earlier this fall, five Jackrabbits — Cox, Farina, Genant, Mengarelli and Wieneke – were selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 6 Team and are under consideration for Academic All-America honors.
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